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... bold challenge but also mankind's ancient dream. An accomplishment without parallel, the flight of Apollo 11 stands alone as humanity's greatest feat of imagination made manifest. Everything about project ... by man, wielding an unimaginable seven and a half million pounds of thrust while the Apollo spacecraft was able to travel a half a million miles and function with a precision ... , an era in which the horizon of mankind's dreams would be forever shifted. In Apollo 11 The NASA Mission Reports Volume One some of the rare official documentation of this ...

... around the world have wondered what it was like to be aboard Eagle and Columbia. Apollo 11 - The NASA Mission Reports Volume 2 features reports declassified especially for this book, reports ... to the public. After the initial flurry of Press activity in 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 returned to their lives and interviews became less and less frequent. Journalists the world ... who pushed the envelope to a new limit. Taken from the crew's own words Apollo 11 - The NASA Mission Reports Volume 2 will be informing people for generations. Also included ...

... spacecraft Columbia arrived on the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet . The flight of Apollo 11 had been an unqualified triumph. The goals laid out by President John F. Kennedy ... to maximise the return from future missions. Just prior to the launch of Apollo 12 , NASA issued the Apollo 11 Mission Report. The document contained everything from the crew's observations about ... to the interaction between the Lunar Module's footpads and the dusty lunar surface. In Apollo 11 - The NASA Mission Reports Volume 3 the first comprehensive study of man's first ...

... tank which failed at the last minute and was fixed by pulling its counterpart from Apollo 13, or the outrageous pinpoint landing by Pete Conrad through a pall of lunar dust ... to use the hybrid trajectory with its so-called non-free-return. Such trajectory for Apollo 13 , without correction, would have been fatal. Then as if to really test the mettle ... the Command Module hit the water at a punishing 15g's. The photographic record of Apollo 12 is, to put it politely, sketchy. The TV camera failed during EVA, the 16mm ...

... an exclusive interview with Captain John Young. The landing site selected for the crew of Apollo 16 was in the lunar highland area of Descartes. NASA chose to send John Young ... experience than any other member of the astronaut corps. He had circumnavigated the moon on Apollo 10 and he had flown two Gemini missions. Young would later go on to be ... to turn against NASA and the remarkable risks and exploits undertaken by the crew of Apollo 16 went almost unnoticed by the American public. The three intrepid explorers and their spacecraft ...

... packed full of never before seen materials. This book include the NASA Mission Reports for Apollo 17 as well as the NASA press releases from 1972 relating to the flight. The ... the back contains an exclusive video interview with Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan , the last man to set foot on the moon. Apollo 17 was the first time that a scientist was ... with Commander Eugene Cernan on the edge of the Sea of Serenity. Apollo 17 was the longest of the Apollo missions, it was also the heaviest payload and the longest Lunar stay ...

... landing mission was presented and illustrated. The book includes a large fold-out of the Apollo mission as well as a fold-out of the Saturn V moon rocket. It includes ... Lunar Module, maps of the Cape Canaveral launch sites, launch schedules for all of the Apollo test flights, detailed specifications and schematics of the Saturn V launch vehicle stages, construction schedules ... accompanying DVD is a 100 minute compilation of live television footage of the launch of Apollo 11 . A unique soundtrack has been added to the last hour of the film using ...

... '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2011.64.289 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract Some 9 of the 19 Apollo capsules that made splashdown in the open ocean went into an inverted (`Stable II') orientation ...

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